These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: E | E :|| x4
Verse 1
| E | E | E | E |
You keep sayin’ you’ve got somethin’ for me.
| E | E | E | E |
Somethin’ you call love but confess.
| A5 | A5 | A5 | A5 |
You’ve been a-messin’ where you shouldn’t have been a-messin’.
| E | E | E | E |
And now someone else is getting all your best.
Chorus 1
| G /F# | E /F# | G /F# | E /F# |
These boots are made for walkin’, and that’s just what they’ll do.
| G /F# | E N.C | N.C |
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
Instrumental 1
||: E | E :|| x4
Yeah.
Verse 2
You keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’.
And you keep losing when you oughta not bet.
You keep samin’ when you oughta be a-changin’.
Now what’s right is right but you ain’t been right yet.
Chorus 2
These boots are made for walkin’, and that’s just what they’ll do.
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
Instrumental 2
||: E7 | E7 :|| x4
Verse 3
| E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) |
You keep playin’, where you shouldn’t be playin’.
| E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) |
And you keep thinkin’ that you’ll never get burnt, ha.
| A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) |
I just found me a brand new box of matches, yeah.
| E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) | E7 (E6) |
And what he knows you ain’t had time to learn.
Chorus 3
These boots are made for walkin’, and that’s just what they’ll do.
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
Outro
||: E | E :|| x4
Are you ready, boots? Start walkin’.
||: E7 outro riff :|| to fade
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ Chords: Learn the progressions
This is an unexpected cracker! I love playing the chords for These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, mainly because you can develop them as the song progresses.
Start verses 1 and 2 by playing these chords in the key of E:
||: E (I) :|| x8
||: A5 (IV) :|| x4
||: E :|| x4
By verse three, you can incorporate the horn riff, the chords could now be described as this:
||: E7 (E6) :|| x8
||: A7 (A6) :|| x4
||: E7 (E6) :|| x4
In between that, you’ll play the chorus which is mainly a bass line between I and VI in the new key of G, although chord VI is major (VIx). This creates tension. In its simplest form, I like to describe it like this:
||: G (I) /F# | E (VIx) /F# :||
The chord riff can be played on just one guitar, but it is that horn riff that makes it so much fun.
I”ve designed some TAB for you, detailing how to do all this, here’s a link: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Having absorbed the TAB, a simple chord chart is all you need as a reminder, like this.
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ iReal Pro.
Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key although if you do, how will you incorporate the horn riff?!?
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ is Nancy’s signature song!
Nancy Sinatra‘s signature song, These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ was also her breakthrough single.
As Frank‘s daughter, the enormous success must have been somewhat of a relief, Nancy clearly had a lot to live up to.
In many ways, she and the video for These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ came to represent the era of the swinging ’60s with Women finding more of an independent voice.
As an unexpected cover that always goes down well, I can highly recommend you add this one to your band’s setlist.
Should you want to engage in some audience participation, you could get them to line dance, even if your band isn’t a country band. Audience participation is the key to every working band’s success.
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ Chords | Related Pages
These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ by Nancy Sinatra using TAB and chord analysis.
| E | E | E | E |
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Nancy Sinatra tunes
Best known for being Frank Sinatra’s daughter and as the poster child for the swinging ’60s, Nancy Sinatra had a few intense years in the late ’60s.
Her best tunes include These Boots Are Made For Walking, Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Something Stupid, and You Only Live Twice.
Nancy Sinatra on the web
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